Aircooled VW South Africa

I want to start with the repairs on my beach buggy.

I have no experience on spray painting fiber glass.

Where do I start? I was looking at a dark green, but a metalic or glitter paint.

There are deep and small cracks.

How do I do the perp and what do I need?

The prep is basically the same as you would do on a metal body , I would look into getting some flexible body filler for that rebuild.

Hi Piesang

You can fill deep cracks with a flexible bodyfiller and the finer cracks with a microfiller.
Sand the whole body down to 220 dry paper and apply primer (nice and thick - perhaps 3 coats)
Sand down the primer to 400 grit waterpaper (if you want a better finish, go up to 600 grit water).
Microfill final imperfections and sand them down with your waterpaper.
Wipe down body with a tack-rag.
Apply basecoat and then clearcoat.
Voila! All done!

Look under projects to see proses until primer:
The Yellow Thingy-me-bob: Spyder
1, 2, 3 by rouxlouis » Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:52 pm in Projects

rouxlouis wrote:Hi Piesang

You can fill deep cracks with a flexible bodyfiller and the finer cracks with a microfiller.
Sand the whole body down to 220 dry paper and apply primer (nice and thick - perhaps 3 coats)
Sand down the primer to 400 grit waterpaper (if you want a better finish, go up to 600 grit water).
Microfill final imperfections and sand them down with your waterpaper.
Wipe down body with a tack-rag.
Apply basecoat and then clearcoat.
Voila! All done!

Look under projects to see proses until primer:
The Yellow Thingy-me-bob: Spyder
1, 2, 3 by rouxlouis » Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:52 pm in Projects

I had a look at what you are doing and it looks good. I have a sample of a dark green that is similar to the effect of your spray and it looks good, but I'm looking for the more ruff glitter effect like this one in the photo



and I think the glitter flakes is to big a normal spray gun nozzle.

I was thingking of doing the base plain dark green and the get a green glitter in to the clear coating

My own experience with fiberglass cracks and paint
CRACKS FILLED WITH FILLER WILL RE-APPEAR AS SOON AS YOU HAVE DRIVEN A FEW KILOS! Period
the only way to repair correctly is to vee each crack until the crack is gone then use fiber matting and resin to build up the surface again
once the crack is fixwd yoy can use normal methods as per fillers etc.
inspect your body for the reason for the crack most buggy chassis were built with the help of an easywelder and some klippies and coke. they are weak and flex causing further cracks.
look at Pines thread (Hot wheels two) to see how we solved the flex problem and it has now been used on a few buggies with great success even passing the Pine crash test
Armand

IMPI wrote:My own experience with fiberglass cracks and paint
CRACKS FILLED WITH FILLER WILL RE-APPEAR AS SOON AS YOU HAVE DRIVEN A FEW KILOS! Period
the only way to repair correctly is to vee each crack until the crack is gone then use fiber matting and resin to build up the surface again
once the crack is fixwd yoy can use normal methods as per fillers etc.
inspect your body for the reason for the crack most buggy chassis were built with the help of an easywelder and some klippies and coke. they are weak and flex causing further cracks.
look at Pines thread (Hot wheels two) to see how we solved the flex problem and it has now been used on a few buggies with great success even passing the Pine crash test
Armand

If this is the one http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... 121#p80903 thanks.

Ok ek het so bietjie gespeel met verf wat 'n paintshop my gegee het. "n Donkergroen matelic, maar dit was nie voldoende nie. Toe koop ek 'n bietjie groen glitter en gooi dit by die clear coat, maar toe maak hy groot klonte soos ek spray.

Was van dag weer by die paintshop en wys hul die blikkie waar op ek gespeel het en hul gee my toe meer raad en nog 'n bietjie groen verf met swaarder glitter in.

By die huis gekom en weer begin speel, nog nie 100% wat ek wil hê nie, maar ek dink dis die naaste was ek daaraan sal kom.

het gesukkel om fotos te neem, hy het geblink soos 'n spieël soos jul op die eerste foto kan sien

watse verf is dit daai??2K OF BASE COAT/CLEAR COAT

buggyfan wrote:watse verf is dit daai??2K OF BASE COAT/CLEAR COAT

BASE & CLEAR

Die effek van die metallic is baie mooi! Nuuskierig om te sien hoe die buggy gaan lyk met daai verf op.

IMPI wrote:My own experience with fiberglass cracks and paint
CRACKS FILLED WITH FILLER WILL RE-APPEAR AS SOON AS YOU HAVE DRIVEN A FEW KILOS! Period
the only way to repair correctly is to vee each crack until the crack is gone then use fiber matting and resin to build up the surface again
once the crack is fixwd yoy can use normal methods as per fillers etc.
inspect your body for the reason for the crack most buggy chassis were built with the help of an easywelder and some klippies and coke. they are weak and flex causing further cracks.
look at Pines thread (Hot wheels two) to see how we solved the flex problem and it has now been used on a few buggies with great success even passing the Pine crash test
Armand

You are correct as always Armand, what I do for my trailers is after the repair as per your post, then flat it below the surface, and blend it in to the gel coat on all sides.
Then fill the hollow section with pigmented gel coat to a higher level then the area around the repair, and cover with "clingfilm" to gloss out.
Then you flat gel coat to level.
Now and only now will the fibre glass be water tight, and not blister or crack in future.
Hope it helps.......
Herman

Soos my dogter sal sê EK IS NOU NIE DIE SKERPSTE MES IN DIE LAAI as die by intrnet kom, so ek het vergeet dat ek al die pos begin het oor die spry van my buggy.


Maar hier volg dit.
http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... 23&t=26804